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| 20120082042 | CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK FOR ENHANCED DOWNLINK MULTIPLE INPUT - MULTIPLE OUTPUT OPERATION In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is deriving multiple input-multiple output feedback information using a set of precoding matrices associated with at least one precoding codebook, signaling, in a first plurality of resource elements, c... | 04/05/2012 |
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| 20120063353 | TRAFFIC-LOAD DEPENDENT POWER REDUCTION IN HIGH-SPEED PACKET SWITCHING SYSTEMS The invention relates to a method and devices for a packet switching system for traffic-load dependent power reduction in packet switching systems. In order to reduce the power consumption of a packet switching system, it is proposed that t... | 03/15/2012 |
| 20120008639 | System and Method for Operating with Groups of Communications Devices in a Wireless Communications System A system and method for operating with groups of communications devices in a wireless communications system are provided. A method includes for each flow in at least one flow associated with communications devices in a group of communications devices served by a communi... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008640 | Method and Apparatus for Using Dynamic Subchannels in a Communications Network A method and apparatus for attaining the benefits of both an adjacent subchannel assignments and distributed subchannel assignments. That is, the following is a method and apparatus for providing dynamic subchannel assignments that provide the benefits of both adjacent ... | 01/12/2012 |
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| 20110235653 | WEIGHT-BASED BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION FOR NETWORK TRAFFIC A network device may implement packet scheduling with administrator-configurable packet scheduling policies. In one implementation, the network device includes a filter component configured to assign priority levels to data units, the priority levels defining traffic cl... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110149993 | METHOD OF AIDING THE RESERVATION OF RESOURCES FOR A PACKET NETWORK, AND ASSOCIATED MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND AID DEVICE A method intended to aid in the reservation of resources within a packet-switched communication network comprising a number N of relaying nodes. This method consists i), in determining for some at least of the N nodes at least one resource reservation plan Pik defined b... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110019677 | Limiting of Network Device Resources Responsive to IPv6 Originating Entity Identification Methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated therewith are used to limit network device resources based on the identification of the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) originating entity (e.g., subscriber of a network carrier). As an IPv6... | 01/27/2011 |
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| 20100189125 | METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK RESOURCE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD, ACCESS RESOURCE ADMISSION AND CONTROL DEVICE A metropolitan area network (MAN) resource control system, method and Access-Resource and Admission Control Function (A-RACF) device are disclosed, wherein, the A-RACF device comprises a MAN resource and policy control function (RPCF) module. The MAN network device comp... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100158531 | CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WAVELENGTH-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXED TRANSMISSION SYSTEM Provided is a channel assignment method in a wavelength-division-multiplexed transmission system. The channel assignment method includes obtaining information about signal modulation schemes from a plurality of optical transmitters, and assigning channels to the respect... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158035 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND RECURSIVE PATH COMPUTATION FOR REAL-TIME AUTOMATIC PATH SETUP AT MULTI-LAYER TRANSPORT NETWORK A recursive path computation method is disclosed to integratedly manage resources required for a computation of a data transmission path in a multi-layer transport network to enable automatic real time allocation of lower layer resources required for processing a path r... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100150166 | CHANNEL CAPACITY ADAPTIVE REPEATER Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for increasing data rate in a signal. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a mobile broadcast signal including inner code and outer code information; generating an adju... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100111097 | ADAPTIVE UTILIZATION OF A NETWORK RESPONSIVE TO A COMPETITIVE POLICY A system (10) and method (20) includes transmitting (22) Service Related (SR) data (15, 16, or 17) from each one of a plurality of networks (11, 12, and 13), receiving and processing (24) at a device (14) th... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100098066 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SHARED SERVICES The present invention enables an overlay capability to be invoked on network systems and elements that are designed to support multiple customer bases. Depending on the registered identification of the user, screens and other user interfaces that provide access to funct... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100091788 | CONFIGURATION FOR MESSAGING MULTIPLEXED CHANNEL INSTANCES WITH VARYING CONNECTION SPEEDS A method, system and article of manufacture are disclosed for selecting a channel instance for connecting a client with a server in a multi-channel instance computer system. In this computer system, when a new channel instance is used for connecting the client with one ... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100061395 | SELF-ORGANIZING RESOURCE ACCESS APPARATUS AND METHOD IN LOCAL AREA NETWORK COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT A self-organizing resource access method is provided for transmitting data by self-organizing resource access by each individual node in a Local Area Network (LAN) communication environment where at least two nodes exchange data with each other. A first node listens to ... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100054164 | Random Linear Network Coding for Time Division Duplexing A new random linear network coding scheme for reliable communications for time division duplexing channels is proposed. The setup assumes a packet erasure channel and that nodes cannot transmit and receive information simultaneously. The sender transmits coded data pack... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100040080 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING SUB-CHANNELS IN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (OFDMA) SYSTEM A method and apparatus for allocating subchannels in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is provided. In the method and apparatus, mixed bands in each of which adjacent subcarriers and distributed subcarriers are mixed are used to form a band... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100020681 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND DEVICE, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM Provided is a communication apparatus by which a user can simply set a transmission quality in a network and QoS control effectively functions. QoS type receiving sections (11, 21, 31, 41) are arranged in communication apparatuses (10, 20, 30, 40) on a net... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100008311 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING RESOURCES IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A system and method for utilizing resources in a communication system are provided, in which a cell is divided into N sectors, a total frequency resource is divided into a center frequency region and a normal frequency region, the center frequency region is divided into... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090323600 | ADAPTING CHANNEL WIDTH FOR IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF WIRELESS NETWORKS The subject invention relates to a system and/or methodology that provide improved wireless networking performance by dynamically adapting the channel width. A dynamic adaptation component adjust the channel width based on at least one characteristic of a wireless netwo... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090225773 | Methods and systems for controlling network communication parameters Methods and systems for controlling network communication parameters (e.g., data transfer rate) employed by two or more network nodes communicating over a network communications link by using the Inter-Packet Gap (IPG) length to sending network communication parameter i... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090219946 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE ADMISSION AND CONTROL System and method for resource admission and control is disclosed. The system for resource admission and control includes an interface unit for application function unit configured to receive service request sent from the application function unit; a policy decision fun... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090154481 | Apparatus and method for adaptive data packet scheduling in mesh networks Various embodiments provide an apparatus and method for adaptive data packet scheduling in a mesh network. An example embodiment is configured to divide a time period into a plurality of frames; subdivide each of the plurality of frames into a plurality of slots, each o... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090067428 | Apparatus, Method and Computer Program Product Providing High Performance Communication Bus Having Preferred Path Source Routing, Multi-Guarantee QoS and Resource Reservation, Management and Release Disclosed are methods, apparatus and computer program products, in accordance with exemplary embodiments of this invention, that provide a communication network having an enhanced data packet source routing procedure, that provide enhanced QoS functionality in a communi... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090059947 | High-availability communication system There is described a communication system for reliable communication between communication stations, wherein there is at least one communication connection between the communication stations, wherein the communication connection features at least two channels for transm... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090016372 | Signaling and Training for Antenna Selection in OFDMA Networks A method selects antennas in an OFDMA wireless network including a base station and a mobile station. The mobile station measures a channel state of a downlink in a downlink subframe using different subsets of available antennas, and selects a subset of receive antennas... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090010274 | DYNAMIC SELECTION OF CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT FOR PRESERVING POWER IN A WIRELESS DEVICE A method, information processing system, and wireless communication system for dynamically assigning a communication channel to a wireless device. A request for a communication channel from a wireless device (108) is received. At least a current-drain profile ( 01/08/2009 | |
| 20080317060 | EFFICIENT LOAD BALANCING AND HEARTBEAT MECHANISM FOR TELECOMMUNICATION ENDPOINTS The present invention is directed to load balancing call signaling channels at the times that they are established, the use of variable frequency keep alive mechanisms depending on the state of the call signaling channel, and the establishment of a call signaling channe... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080291938 | Connecting Device for Randomly Connecting a Number of Transmitters and Receivers, Communication Device and Method for Producing Connecting Device A connection device for random connection of a first member of first transmission/reception units with a second number of second transmission/reception units has a switching matrix that includes a third number of controllable micromechanical switching elements that are ... | 11/27/2008 |
